Purple

#5e306b

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for purple, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Purple is a deep purple with a weighty cast. Deep purples like this carry luxury and craft. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #5e306b, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5e306b

RGB94, 48, 107

HSL287, 38%, 30%

HSV287, 55%, 42%

CMYK12%, 55%, 0%, 58%

Lab28.26, 31.29, -25.92

XYZ8.33, 5.56, 14.54

Decimal6172779

Web safe#663366

Pantone520 C

Shades of purple

#562c62 #4f285a #472451 #402149 #381d40 #311937 #29152f #221126 #1a0d1e #130915

Tints of purple

#723a82 #87459a #9b50b0 #a867bb #b67ec5 #c396d0 #d0adda #ddc4e5 #ebdbef #f8f3f9

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#3d6b30 Analogous#40306b Analogous#6b305a Triadic#6b5e30 Triadic#306b5e Split complementary#5a6b30 Split complementary#306b41

Purple in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 12, 55, 0, 58.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5e306b on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

12 55 0 58

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

15 55 4 64

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Purple in css

Copy #5e306b straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5e306b; }
.text { color: #5e306b; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5e306b; }

How purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #5e306b against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5e306b against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #5e306b sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around purple? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #5e306b and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #5e306b are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.